The Girl With No Bedroom Door: A true short story

Angela Hart

May 2016 · Pan Macmillan

About this eBook

Fourteen-year-old Louise has been sleeping rough after running away from her previous foster home. Unloved and unwashed, she arrives at foster carer Angela Hart's door stripped of all self-esteem. The Girl with No Bedroom Door tells the wonderfully uplifting story of how Angela's love and care helps Louise blossom into a confident and happy young woman.

Ratings and reviews

I dont agree with foster carers writing the books about the children they take in ,while I have the upmost respect for them.I think it's up the the child when they grow up,if and when they want to tell there story.

The author obviously sees herself as a saint! The entire book was full of other people telling her how amazing she was.

A truly moving book with a Startlingly lovely ending. Angela not only writes from her heart but as you can see by her books Gives her heart, time and time again. A True Mother To All Her Little Guests.

About the author

One day an advert in the local paper caught my eye: 'Foster Carers Wanted'. I knew straight away it was something I'd love to do. As a child I had a friend whose family took in foster children, and I had often asked my mother if we could do the same. I was convinced fostering kids would be like caring for flowers: if we provided the right environment, nourished them well and treated them with love and respect, everything would be rosy. We could foster for a few years, and maybe even carry on when we started our own family. Of course, it wasn't like that at all! Each child had a unique set of problems, some incredibly sad, others very shocking. We found ourselves immersed in a care system we knew nothing about, yet soon found impossible to leave.

I thrived on the challenge and rewards of being a foster mum, and when I discovered several years on that I was not able to have children of my own, I didn't miss a beat. By then I had trained as a specialist carer for teenagers with complex needs, and I have never looked back, fostering more than fifty children over the past twenty-seven years.